Santa Claus is surely going to reward area high school golfers for their efforts this fall; as they head toward the Christmas break, visions of sugar plums, eagles and birdies are surely dancing in their heads. And maybe a new driver or putter.
After a mere 25 years as the driving force behind the Meals on Wheels annual fundraiser at the Galveston Country Club, the event has been renamed “The Reverend Ray Pinard Golf Tournament.”
The weather has lately been sometimes frightful and well, baby, cold outside; but on some days it has ranged from San Diego-like to just plain delightful.
A pair of senseless (aren’t they all) triple bogeys gave me an early case of golf mumbles last Sunday. I was feeling pretty low about my score as I settled in for the Texans versus the Ravens. Things would get worse.
League City’s Mike Standly was among more than 100 golfers who teed up at last week’s Lone Star NGL Texas Senior Open at Eagle Pointe Golf Course in Mont Belvieu.
As the little action figure that represented me walked, he progressed from one rectangle to the next while on the side of the screen messages appeared to indicate which days tickets were sold out. Of course, the weekend packages went first, followed by the single day ducats each of the days of matches.
Being invited to the golf course raters/media day at Escondido Golf & Lake Club in Horseshoe Bay was, for me, right up there with having been invited to attend my first-ever Astros playoff game last year.
To have watched in real-time as Justin Thomas won the PGA Tour’s CJ Cup (and $1.75 million) in South Korea last weekend, one would have had to stay up half the night.
Unless and until the venerable old tournament returns to a pre-Masters spot on the PGA Tour schedule, do not expect marquee players to play in our backyard.
There is much golf going on, and there is much golf-related information of interest. But first, there are socks. Yes, the kind we wear on our feet.
Let’s begin at the beginning with beginners, move on to talking about what talkers talk about, talk about walking, then finish up with local finishers.
In case you missed it, fall has arrived. Soon — but surely not soon enough — there will be a crispness to the morning air.
Guilty. As guilty as Felicity Kendall Huffman am I, for not properly having covered the now completed Solheim Cup matches that were contested at Gleneagles, in Scotland.
Nothing really beats the excitement of the imperfect. Wish I had thought of that.
South Shore Harbour head golf professional Jeff Waltzer and assistant golf professional Steve Rupert are serving as team captains for this year’s ClubCorp Champions Classic, Sept. 4-8, at the venerable Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Things do not always turn out the way they should. A recent, glaring example of that played out Saturday in Arlington as the Houston Texans were outplayed by that rival NFL team that purports to be from Dallas but has no home field there. Worse yet were injuries to key players, one of whom w…
Last Sunday’s “America’s Funniest Videos” (AFV) TV show (a repeat because it is that time of year) included a segment called “19 Bad Golfers in 26 Seconds.”
“Drowning in a flood of choices” (Leonard Woolsey, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019) spoke of dialing back choices in life. Thanks for the earworm.
The season-ending FedEx Tour Championship playoffs kick off this week (pun intended). Very much an effort to avoid going heads up against college football and the NFL, the PGA played a revised schedule for 2018-19, a “wraparound” season which ended Sunday afternoon as J.T. Poston picked up h…
Golf Channel analyst and commentator Brandel Chamblee is a former University of Texas All-American player who had a modicum success on the PGA Tour, where he was arguably best known for his sartorial splendor.
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